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sb hermit posted:dunno why we don't have a midcal to stick SLO in It's like a DMZ
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:returning to the policy that was in place since early 2020 is what i assumed since it was previously working smoothly before they decided that the downtown lunch economy was more important than my continued health I think "working smoothly" makes a lot of assumptions - the last two years were pretty explicitly a holding pattern until something could be figured out with some things deteriorating (and others getting better). It's just that no one wants to figure it out hence a lot of agencies falling into the 2/week system as the path of least resistance. My agency is "everyone figure it out yourselves" and there are real concerns about equity issues if/when much-lower paid office staff under SEIU get told "4 days" and engineers are told "you guys are cool with whatever." And your "blanket demand" isn't a blanket demand from the state, it's still up to each agency to come up with their own plan, which is good because a few of them sometimes remember that not everyone works in downtown Sacto. Sucks yours doesn't.
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Aug 23, 2022 06:20
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oh sorry i wasn't clear, it's a blanket demand from our district chief our PMs haven't been shy about who's responsible for this, it's not even agency-wide for us a buddy of mine's over in D4, they're apparently still closed and he was shocked to hear that we were even trying to be open now
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sb hermit posted:dunno why we don't have a midcal to stick SLO in We would never consent to such a region that would obviously also contain Fresno and Bakersfield . That's why there's a "Central Coast", babyyyyy 
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Aug 23, 2022 06:39
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never thought id see state of jefferson proponents in this thread
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VSOKUL girl posted:never thought id see state of jefferson proponents in this thread im not really a proponent so much as thinking it would be funny
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Aug 23, 2022 09:27
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wouldn't they immediately poo poo up every important watershed normal people rely on i mean i feel that's a good assumption
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Aug 23, 2022 09:32
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:wouldn't they immediately poo poo up every important watershed normal people rely on that's why it would be funny, that and rapidly learning that a proposed state of like 100k people is really hard to control when there's about 5 people voting and they're all cranks who want the government to be destroyed
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sb hermit posted:dunno why we don't have a midcal to stick SLO in Despite decades of propaganda, San Francisco is in midcal. It is basically SLO to SF. They took norcal to sound contrary to socal and try to appropriate that culture. Sorry to hear about your WFH issues HP. The management training sessions where I work are filled with managers demanding strong return to office because they don't know how to handle hybrid or work from home.
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Aug 23, 2022 14:10
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Larry Parrish posted:im not really a proponent so much as thinking it would be funny 
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Aug 23, 2022 14:19
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Prop 26/27 advertising reaching critical mass here in LA.
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Aug 26, 2022 17:46
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I’m pretty sure both are going to be passed, so that’ll be fun to watch.
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Aug 26, 2022 20:48
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my criticism of rail in ca is that the state should have bought or eminent domained freight railroads that won't double track, electrify or in UP case let passenger trains through the pass that connects the central valley to LA. Also get rid of grade crossings tia, my small european country got rid of about all of them and we don't even have high speed rail.
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Aug 26, 2022 22:38
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I wanna see the Tehachapi Loop upgraded to take high-speed train speeds and watch everybody get flattened to the floor by the g-forces.
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Celexi posted:my criticism of rail in ca is that the state should have bought or eminent domained freight railroads that won't double track, electrify or in UP case let passenger trains through the pass that connects the central valley to LA. Yes at-grade crossings for a HSR project in 2022 is a loving tragedy
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CPColin posted:I wanna see the Tehachapi Loop upgraded to take high-speed train speeds and watch everybody get flattened to the floor by the g-forces. Oh, that is not what I meant, more like running the regular cal funded trains through it or higher speed trains or run the high-speed train through it very slowly until you get the tunnel built.
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Jaxyon posted:Yes at-grade crossings for a HSR project in 2022 is a loving tragedy I wish we could remove all at-grade crossings for Caltrain, and in the process also eminent domain all of Atherton
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Aug 27, 2022 00:08
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Shinkansen did away with at-grade 60 years ago.
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Aug 27, 2022 00:12
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Jaxyon posted:Prop 26/27 advertising reaching critical mass here in LA. I got a text from a "volunteer" for prop 27. What kind of broken individual gives their labor to Draft Kings for free?
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Gann Jerrod posted:I’m pretty sure both are going to be passed, so that’ll be fun to watch. didnt occur to me that this is possible but its very funny & i hope it transpires
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luminalflux posted:I wish we could remove all at-grade crossings for Caltrain, and in the process also eminent domain all of Atherton Absolutely not. Atherton is a cesspool of the worst kind of people. Wall the whole thing off and open it up again in a year when they are all gone. Then eminent domain the whole thing.
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Aug 27, 2022 01:25
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Aug 27, 2022 02:24
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Jaxyon posted:Prop 26/27 advertising reaching critical mass here in LA. Celexi posted:Also get rid of grade crossings tia, my small european country got rid of about all of them and we don't even have high speed rail.
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Aug 28, 2022 10:48
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Y'all don't like to sit and do the mental math of how long this drat train must be that you're waiting 10 minutes at a crossing?
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Aug 29, 2022 06:22
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:anyway, here's what our bargaining unit brought back to us: Late to the party but our unit (CAPS) failed to reach an agreement at all before the recess, and now we're shut out. Oh well, maybe next year!
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Aug 29, 2022 06:31
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol. annual raises are 3% this year and 2% next year, no inflation adjustment whatsoever. we were asking for 10% $98 billion dollar surplus btw
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Cup Runneth Over posted:$98 billion dollar surplus btw You ain't gonna maintain a surplus if you give reasonable COLAs and raises to staff.
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Aug 29, 2022 07:10
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Shareholders are going to shut that kind of poo poo down.
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Aug 29, 2022 07:12
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Tayter Swift posted:Late to the party but our unit (CAPS) failed to reach an agreement at all before the recess, and now we're shut out. Oh well, maybe next year! i don't want to be too down on the caps negotiating team, because lord knows i'm not a negotiating expert and it's a hard job, but maybe they shouldn't have been blindsided by their pitch for raises being met with a "no" from the state, and had a plan b ready
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Aug 29, 2022 07:41
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Strike
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Kenning posted:You ain't gonna maintain a surplus if you give reasonable COLAs and raises to staff. What's your definition of a reasonable COLA/raise? Like in dollar amounts - is a $3,300 raise every year for three years a good raise package?
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To be clear, that was sarcasm. I think the state is being chintzy with its raises the way everyone is, and is probably citing the uncertainty of COVID as an excuse, despite good revenues. As for my numbers, they don't matter, because I'm not in the system – I suspect the employee union probably has a better idea than me.
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Kenning posted:To be clear, that was sarcasm. I think the state is being chintzy with its raises the way everyone is, and is probably citing the uncertainty of COVID as an excuse, despite good revenues. As for my numbers, they don't matter, because I'm not in the system – I suspect the employee union probably has a better idea than me. But the union is recommending the proposed contract and doesn't appear to be suggesting that the raises are chintzy, so why do you think the state is being so?
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Zachack posted:But the union is recommending the proposed contract and doesn't appear to be suggesting that the raises are chintzy, so why do you think the state is being so? 
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Kenning posted:To be clear, that was sarcasm. I think the state is being chintzy with its raises the way everyone is, and is probably citing the uncertainty of COVID as an excuse, despite good revenues. As for my numbers, they don't matter, because I'm not in the system – I suspect the employee union probably has a better idea than me. our union also claimed that we don't have any kinda problems with hiring or attrition impending mass retirements and ineffective gigantic hiring pushes notwithstanding, apparently
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BTW you're probably all aware but just in case we're supposed to fuckin' bake this weekend, at least in NorCal. I saw 111F pop up for Sunday in Sacramento and not even the Bay is forecast to be spared. Be safe please goons.
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cat botherer posted:some unions are lovely And some aren't, do you have any supporting evidence for your post that implies the union in this case is lovely?
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3% annual raises are dogshit my dude, especially in the absence of a COLA during a big inflationary period.
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Tayter Swift posted:BTW you're probably all aware but just in case we're supposed to fuckin' bake this weekend, at least in NorCal. I'm gonna ride my bike to Avila Beach and dunk my head in the 54° water 
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Kenning posted:3% annual raises are dogshit my dude, especially in the absence of a COLA during a big inflationary period. Wouldn't a percentage raise being good or bad depend entirely on the starting dollar value? Hence my question of what you consider a good dollar amount.
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